In the spring of 2007, Kunming Xiongda Tea City. Bank teller Xia Yun granted an additional loan of 500,000 yuan to tea merchant Yang Zhenye in order to raise money for the incubator for premature babies. Wu Zhi, a temporary worker at a packaging factory, emphasized that the large tea cake molds are only 2 grams, and the extra money he makes can be used to buy painkillers for his father. Tea master Lin Lu wrote a false report at the tasting party, and her brother's college tuition was buried in the corner of the paper.
The Taiwan tea is pretending to be ancient tree tea, and the quality inspection stamp is heated on the stove. The night shift where logistics orders disappeared, the pregnant porter became famous in the warehouse. When the forum deleted the post, the Pu'er tea index exceeded 8,000 points.
The bubble burst three years later. Xia Yun's child suffered from kidney failure, and a milk powder can containing excessive heavy metals was found under the hospital bed. At Wu's father's funeral, the fungus growing on the tea cakes buried with him was of the same origin as lung cancer cells. Lin Lu found her own tea cakes with boiled tea eggs in a Dongguan teahouse. The cracks in the eggshells spelled out her younger brother's student loan number.
In 2023, the century-old tea king tree will die. The red juice flowing out of the tree hole is made into a car pendant. Scanning the code shows the production date: March 12, 2007. That day Yang Zhenye signed his first contract, and his fingerprints were printed on Xia Yun's loan slip.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.